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Jan 19 (Business Insider) - In a series of tweets on Thursday, Elon Musk revealed new details about his plan to build a city of 1 million people on Mars by 2050. Musk said he hoped to build 1,000 Starships — the towering and ostensibly fully reusable spaceship that SpaceX is developing in South Texas — over 10 years. That's 100 Starships per year....

January 3 (CNN) - Whether you want to relax on a remote island off the coast of Africa, ride Germany's coolest trains or spot howling monkeys in South America, there is much to explore heading into a new decade in 2020. Japan will be hosting the Summer Olympics, Jamaica will be marking the late Bob Marley's 75th birthday, and Washington...

December 30 (Forbes) - It’s vacation time, but where to go? After all, with air travel cheaper and more accessible than ever before (despite the obvious and entirely credible ecological concerns) you literally have the entire world to choose from. And while you could just blindly stick a pin in a map like in the days of yore, you could...

December 17 (Reuters) - Boeing Co said on Monday it would suspend production of its best-selling 737 MAX jetliner in January, its biggest assembly-line halt in more than 20 years, as fallout from two fatal crashes of the now-grounded aircraft drags into 2020. Boeing, which builds the 737 south of Seattle, said it would not lay off any of the...

New Delhi, November 26 (Financial Express): Statistics given by the Ministry of Tourism to parliament show that the top three countries whose tourists arrived in India in 2018, are Bangladesh, the United States and the United Kingdom. The data provided by the Ministry also highlights the consistent increase in overall foreign tourist arrivals as well as the earnings of foreign...

November 13 (Reuters) - Venice’s mayor called the city a disaster zone on Wednesday after the second highest tide ever recorded swept through it overnight, flooding its historic basilica and leaving many squares and alleyways deep under water. A local man from Pellestrina, one of the many islands in the Venetian lagoon, died when he was struck by lightning while...

October 25 (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Thursday the South American nation will drop its requirement that visiting Chinese and Indian tourists or businesspeople obtain visas. Bolsonaro, a far-right politician, came to power at the beginning of the year and has made it a policy to reduce visa requirements from a number of developed countries. But the...

Through India's National Knowledge Network, Lankan Universities have digital access to 1600 universities in India & beyond, Taranjit Singh Sandhu said.

Tourist hot spots were deserted and shops were empty while in the past Golden Week meant bonanzas for trade and tourism.

September 27 (Reuters) - Qatar wants to make alcohol accessible for visiting fans when it hosts the 2022 World Cup and will use cruise ships to ensure it can accommodate an expected one million visitors, the head of the organising committee told reporters on Thursday. Nasser Al Khater, chief executive of the 2022 World Cup, also promised that fans from...